Category Archives: International Retreats

I've just returned from a three-week trip to Nepal. During that trip I spent 11 days trekking. "Trekking," as it turns out, means mountain hiking. (Hmmm. Probably should have looked that up before I booked the trip.) Trekking, in fact, refers to very, very, very tall mountains; not the wussy little hills of the American…

For much of the last two months I had the great opportunity to experience "time out of time," a respite from all that is familiar. Leading two back-to-back retreats -- first on the volcano-dotted shores of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala and then in the lush mountains of Puerto Rico -- I was physically, mentally and…